I don't know if you have found that if you accidentally bite by an ant, it is easy to swell a bag, and it is often accompanied by pain. It feels like ants are getting more and more poisonous now. Red fire ants are not very fresh ants, as early as 2004, a large number of red fire ants were found in the southern region of China.
Red fire ants are basically a disaster for the ecological environment it breaks into, they not only attack people, but also carry venom, and if they are accidentally stung by this ant, they are likely to face the danger of shock. They look a lot like ordinary ants, looking reddish-brown and containing strong venom in their tail spines. If you accidentally step on their nests, there will be a large number of red fire ants flocking out, and then continue to use their tail needles to bite people, and the stinged people will produce redness, swelling, high fever and even shock.
The terrible thing is that there may be hundreds of thousands of ants in a mature red fire ant nest, and the thought that the whole body may be crawled by these ants makes it feel bad.
At present, red fire ants have appeared in our 12 provinces and more than 400 counties, although a considerable number of means have been used to block their transmission, but their spreading ability is too strong, to achieve a comprehensive blockade requires a lot of manpower, material and financial resources. Five years ago, less than 200 counties in China found traces of red fire ants, which means that within 5 years, the number of red fire ants is likely to have more than doubled.
Ants have always been terrible because their reproductive ability is very strong, for the queen responsible for breeding, it is easy to lay 1500-5000 eggs a day, which shows that the population of red fire ants has shown a geometric increase.
Recently, Shandong Qingdao found a new batch of poisonous ants, the number of 38, these toxic live ants are also not native to China's organisms, 23 of these ants are only bullhead ant ant, 15 bow-backed ant genus ants.
Obviously, these ants are likely to be transported to our country in the form of trade, you know, living things can not come in casually. But as global trade increases, many alien species invade other ecosystems through this pathway.
Speaking of bull-headed dog ant and bow-back ant ant, the biggest feature of these two kinds of ants is that they are huge, more than three times larger than the ants we normally see, and the bull-headed dog ant is even more absolute, and there are many such ants that are quite aggressive and toxic, and can even be said to be the most dangerous ants in the world.
I don't know why these poisonous ants came to China in this form, and some people speculate that some people may want to breed this ant. Doing this kind of thing out of selfishness is really very angry, after all, the consequences of such a thing as species flooding are quite serious. For this kind of creature with strong reproductive ability, large size and strong toxicity, once it begins to flood, not only will human life and health be threatened, but farmland, infrastructure, etc. are also likely to be wasted.
The Bulldog Ant is likely to be quite dangerous, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the most poisonous ant, and it is likely that it will be put down within 15 minutes if it is stabbed by such ants.
In recent years, species invasions have really become more and more common. For example, Asian fish have conquered lakes in Africa, Asian fish have flooded in the United States, crayfish have flooded in Europe, and so on.
In fact, most of the species invasion incidents are artificially made, many people at the beginning do not realize the seriousness of the matter, the introduction of alien species, the result of the alien species in the local not only sufficient food, there is no natural enemy, happy bad, a day to eat nothing to give birth to a baby.
People really should have a sense of awe about nature, not too chaotic. Most species invasions are caused by man-made disasters, and the result is that humans themselves are the last to be harmed.
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